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Crackerbox Fire, July 2016 Coconino

Out · last measured on 20 Jul 2016

The fire started on 20 July 2016 in Coconino, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 515 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 334th largest in Arizona since 2016 (of 380 with a page). Number 418 in United States in 2016, of 475.

Burnt area
515ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
20 Jul 2016 – 20 Jul 2016
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
20 Jul
2016
Heat detections
2
in a single hotspot: 2 MW
Danger at start
3
Very low · FWI index

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 20 Jul20 Jul

The weather it burned in

31°high
36km/h · peak gust
20%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.7 mm on 28 Jul.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Coconino where it started
    505 ha reached on 24 Jul
    0.0 %

Burnt area inside each county, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
20 Jul 26.4 °C 33 % 34 km/h 8.5 mm Very low 3
21 Jul after 28.1 °C 28 % 36 km/h 0.8 mm Low 10
22 Jul after 29.6 °C 23 % 28 km/h 2.1 mm Low 11
23 Jul after 30.6 °C 20 % 35 km/h 0.8 mm Moderate 20
24 Jul after 29.9 °C 21 % 36 km/h 0.6 mm High 24
25 Jul after 29.1 °C 21 % 29 km/h 3.1 mm Low 8
26 Jul after 27.4 °C 31 % 26 km/h 0.7 mm Moderate 15
27 Jul after 31.5 °C 17 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
28 Jul after 31.0 °C 21 % 34 km/h 2.7 mm Moderate 14

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 13 Jul 2016
After · 27 Jul 2016

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

Detections table · 2Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Crackerbox fire last?
It burned between 20 July 2016 and 20 July 2016: 1 day, according to the start date recorded by United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) and the heat detections seen by satellite.
How much area did it burn?
The official perimeter published by United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) is 515 hectares (5.2 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Coconino (505 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 30.6 °C, humidity dropped to 20 % and gusts hit 36 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 24, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the official burnt perimeter of United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC, public domain), NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of United States. It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

Emergency number: 911

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Where this data comes from

The perimeter is official and in the public domain. For past years it comes from MTBS (Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity), run by the U.S. Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service, which map it on Landsat and Sentinel-2 imagery. For the current and last year it comes from WFIGS at the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC): incident perimeters mapped by fire crews, aircraft and imagery. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. County boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Public Domain). The area per county is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ slightly from official figures.